Word: bracker
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...arrangements that, on paper at least, complemented the papal tolerance. Press censorship was temporarily lifted, and passage across the border separating the two bitter enemies was made easy for newsmen. The only correspondent to encounter any serious trouble at the checkpoint was the New York Times's Milton Bracker, who, on entering Jordan, gave the wrong answer to a routine question: "Are you a Christian?" "No," replied Bracker. "I am a Jew." Authorities begged him to retract his response, if only for their records. When the defiant Bracker refused, they admitted him to Jordan anyway...
...foreign" press. The Times sent Cortesi to Geneva, Mexico City, and finally to Buenos Aires, where he won a Pulitzer Prize for his bold coverage of the repressive Perón regime. In 1946 he went back to Rome. Cortesi's successor: veteran Times Staffer Milton Bracker-who reopened the war-shuttered Rome bureau in 1944 and two years later handed it back to Arnaldo Cortesi...